Screening of Cucumis melo Parental, F1, F 2 and Backcross Population for Determination of the Genetic Basis of Tolerance to Myrothecium roridum

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:57-58 (article 21) 1992 W.A. Mackay, T. J. Ng and F.A. Hammerschlag Department of Horticulture, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USDA, ARS, Plant Molecular Biology Laboratory, BARC-West, 10300 Baltimore Ave., Beltsville, MD 20442 Detached leaf inoculation assays by Kuti and Ng (2) of fifty melon cultigens revealed no source […]

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Direct and Indirect Regeneration of Cucumis melo L. from Cotyledon Culture

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 12:55-57 (article 24) 1989 W.A. Mackay, T.J. Ng and F.A. Hammerschlag Department of Horticulture, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 USA; Plant Molecular Biology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD 20705 USA Successful in vitro selection requires the regeneration of plants from unorganized tissue. We have […]

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Plant Regeneration from Callus of Cucumis melo L.

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 11:33-34 (article 15) 1988 W.A. Mackay and T.J. Ng Dept. of Horticulture, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 USA. W.A. Hammerschlag. Tissue Culture and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD 20705 USA. Tissue culture is a promising tool for the recovery of important traits […]

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